Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-23
THE PANHANDLE.
tbs Northwest Portion OF Texas Com
ing 0ui-The prouth More Sisned
Agsinst Than SHINING.
Texas Injured by the missionaries Who
Went Forth to G amor Alms-The
sFtres II tho North.

MI. 5shn o. Howard, one of the enter
| prisiag citizens of Wichita Falls, was in
Slsa city yesterday and paid THE GAZETTE
4 pleasant call. Mr.. Howard was one Of
the original boomers Of Wichita Falls
and the Panhandle, and he is not YET
tired or the least discouraged. He has
made his home in the Falls, and proposes
to fight it out on that line if it takes alI
| summer and four corner lots thrown in,
"How is the big city getting along?"
asked the reporter.
"You mean Wichita Falls?"
eyes"
'Just as I always said it would be-the
best town in the northwest. We dave had
G somewhat dull time lately, but things
are improving just now, and by putting
your ear to the ground you can bear the
boom coming"
"Did the drouth affect you much last
year?"
considerable; but no more than
other places in the state, and it's effects
are over now and are no longer felt. We
had little drought IN Texas, and in
stantlY the fact was heralded over the
earth"
"And begging missionaries went
FORTH" interpolaEed the scribe, giving
Mr.. Howard chance to catch his breath
= "Aud begging missionaries went
FORTH" repeated Mr.. Howard. eve
were advertised north and south, east
and west, in the old world and the new,
and on both hemlspheres as on the verge
of starvation"
"Do you think the begging hurt US
worse than the drought"
at did; it has hurt US more than you
can imagine, and is hurting Us Still.
Texas is never thought OF in the north
and east except in connection with slkali
plains or drouth-stri territory"
"Texas is not clone; other states have
suffered from the drouth."
"Texas is not alone, to be sure, and
she has suffered nothing comparatively.
Look st Illinois, Indiana and Michigan,
where drouth has prevailed al the sum
mer through-where people have had TO
haul water fifteen or twenty miles to
drink, and where they are forced now to
drive their stock cut OF the country
and sell them st & sacrifice. They are
digging artesisn wells, praying for rain
and fighting forest fires which threaten
destruction 30 al things, and yet they
are Bot out on the housetops crying
starvation and suffering, nor are Their
missionaries down here Or anywhere else
begging aims. Texas cried oat befor
she was good hurt. We had some cases
which we had to take care OF, and we
could have taken care CT them ourselves
without advertising our entire state Is
being in state OF restitution"
"You think then, that when the public
mind becomes di5abused, PEG lie will
again take heart and flock towards tie
northwest"
81 do; and re look for better times
soon and q rapid settlement of the
country. As fer as Wichita Falls is con-
cerned, that town will take spring for
ward now that the Rock Islands coming
IN is an assured fact. 1t will help the
town and the country. That road will
open up some OF the finest country
on the globe for farming purposes and
this will surely be settled up. We are in
no way dishesrtened over our prospects,
but on the contrary feel rather jubilAnt."
Mr. Howard said something else about
the Falls, but il was OF private snd val
liable character which will cost big money
to find out.